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Accessible and Affordable Care at Heart of Healthcare Technology Grants

Five teams of scientists from multiple campuses of the University of California and a Southern California hospital have been awarded up to $100,000 each to commercialize their ideas for new, lower cost health care technologies that will address a long-standing need for more affordable and efficient chronic disease management and preventive health care, particularly in underserved communities.

September 07, 2011Health

First Global Picture of Greenhouse Gases Emerges from Pole-to-Pole Flights

A three-year series of research flights from the Arctic to the Antarctic has successfully produced an unprecedented portrait of greenhouse gases and particles in the atmosphere, scientists announced today.

September 07, 2011Science and Engineering, SIO

Former 9/11 Commissioner to Speak Sept. 20 at UC San Diego’s Student Convocation

Timothy Roemer, a University of California, San Diego alumnus, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives and a 9/11 Commissioner, will be the keynote speaker at the Sept. 20 New Student Convocation on campus.

September 07, 2011Events, General, Students

UC San Diego Health System: Saving Time, Saving Lives

Over the last year, UC San Diego Health System managed to significantly decrease average door-to-balloon time, beating national guidelines by over a third, and improving care of patients with the most severe type of heart attack, known as STEMI (ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction).

September 07, 2011Health

UC San Diego Invention Saving Consumers Trillions of Watt Hours and Millions of Dollars

A University of California, San Diego technology that significantly reduces the amount of energy wasted by chips in computers, mobile phones and other electronic devices has recently passed the trillion watt-hour milestone in energy savings, according to the technology’s current licensee, Tela Innovations.

September 07, 2011Science and Engineering

Biofuels Certificate Program Trains Workers for New Jobs in State’s Green Economy

The first 50 graduates of an innovative program funded by the State of California to retrain workers for the new green economy received their certification today to work as general science technicians in the rapidly expanding biofuels industry in the San Diego and Imperial County region.

September 07, 2011Science and Engineering

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